• From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@g...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:12:19 +0100

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Yesterday I spoke, separately, to 4 different persons.
>
> The first person was a security expert. He told me, "Security is the most important thing. When designing an application or system, your design must place security first; create a design centered around a secure foundation."
>
> The second person was a Unicode expert. He told me, "Character and language issues is the most important thing. When designing an application or system, your design must place character and language issues first; create a design centered around a good character/language foundation."
>
> The third person was a user interface expert. He told me, "The user interface is the most important thing. When designing an application or system, your design must place the user interface first; create a design centered around a good interface foundation."
>
> The fourth person was a data (XML, JSON) expert. He told me, "Data is the most important thing. When designing an application or system, your design must place the data first -- the core piece of design that you need to get right is the data model; create a design centered around a good data foundation."
>
> Who's right?
>
> /Roger
>
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• References:
  • Who's right? Security-centric or Character/Language-centric orUser-Interface-centric or Data-Centric?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>